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".,...- 4 6 2 e 3/9/59 I 1 I i i I CHAMBERS STREETS WOULD BE APPROXIMATELY $8400. ON QUESTION IT WAS INDICATED THAT A WOVEN WIRE FENCE WITH CEDAR POSTS,COULD PROBABLY BE INSTALLED BETWEEN POLK AND CHAMBERS STREETS AT A COST LESS THAN $1000. I SOME DISCUSSION WAS HAD WITHIN THE COMMITTEE ON THIS SUBJECT AND THE QUESTION WAS RAISED AS TO WHERE THE CITY WOULD STOP BUILDING fENCES ALONG THE AMAZON If THEY WERE TO START IN THIS AREA. IT WAS ALSO STATED THAT THERE ARE A NUMBER Of HAZARDS OTHER THAN THIS -THAT ARE"OF fAR GREATER DANGER TO CHILDREN. --' ITMWAS RECOMMENDED THAT A LETTER BE SENT TO MR. FOGEL INDICATING THAT IN THE COM- MITTEE'S VIEWPOINT, THIS IS NOT A REAL HAZARD, THAT IT WOULD BE EXTREMELY COSTLY, AND ONE THAT,'FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THE CITY WOULD BE AN ENDLE$S PROJECT. IT WAS -ALSO' STATED THAT THIS COULD BE A PROJECT WHICH THE PTA ,AND THE SCHOOL BOARD MIGHT WORK OUT, BUT THAT FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THE~ITY NOTHING COULD BE DONE. IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER'SECONDED BY MR. ,LINDEEN THAT ITEM 3 OF THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE BE APPROVED. MOTION CARRIED. -- 4. REQUEST fOR 'PAVING'Of DONALD--STREET fROM'4IST 'TO 43RD AVENUE - A PETitiON SIGNED BY OWNERS'Of 100% OF THE PROPERTY TO-BE ASSESSED FOR THE PAVING Of DoNALD,STREET fROM 41ST TO 43RD-AvENUE WAS PRESENTED. A LETTER FROM SCHOOL DISTRICT #4 WAS:ALSO PRE- SENTED WtTHTHE PET~TI'ON REQUESTING -THt ABOVE-PAVING, ANDruRTHER REQUESTING THE INSTALLATION OF STORM AND-SANITARY SEWERS ON DONALD STREET fROM,4IST TO 43RD AVENUE, AND AN EXTENSION-Of-'SUCH SEWER LINES EAST To,Fox HOLLOW RoAD. THE DIRECTOR Of PUBLI C 'WORKS - IND I CATED I N THE OP I N I ON OF THE PUBLI C WORKS DEPARTMENT THE BEST CONSTRUCTION SEQUENCE ON THESE PROJECTS,WOUlD BE TO PAVE DONALD STREET FROM 41ST TO 430 AVENUE IN THE SUMMER Of 1959 AND THEN-PAVE-43RD AVENUE: fROM DONALD STREET, TO Fox HOLLOW ROAD INCLUDING THE INSTALLATION OF THE STORM AND SANITARY- SEWERS THE FOLLOWING SUMMER. I SOME DISCUSSION WAS HAD REGARDING THE STORM SEWER AND SAN}TARY SEWER AND WHETHER THIS WOULD TEND TO OVERLOAD ANY EXISTING SYSTEM IN THE CITY. IT WAS STATED THAT THE STORM SEWER WOULD EMPTY INTO THE AMAZON AND THE SANITARY SEWER WOULD EVENTUALLY fiND ITS WAY TO THE NEW PEARL STREET LINE. IT WAS fURTHER STATED THAT AT THIS TIME RIGHT-OF-WAY HAD NOT BEEN ACQUIRED fOR 43RD AVENUE: BETWEEN Fox~HoLLOW ROAD AND DONALD STREET. THE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED THAT DONALD STREET BE PAVED fROM 41ST TO 43RD AVENUE AS REQUESTED AT THIS TIME AND THAT THE NECESSARY 08DINANCES INITIATING THE PRO- JECT BE PASSED.' , . IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED By,MRS. LAURIS THAT ITEM 4 OF ~HE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE BE APPROVED. MOTION CARRIED WITH MR. WILSON VOTING NAY. 5. DISCUSSION REGARDING CONTINUATION Of THE AMAZON PROJECT TO THE SOUTHEAST CITY LIMITS - IN CONNECTION WITH ITEM 4 SOME DISCUSSION WAS GIVEN TO THE PRESENT CAPA- CITY. Of THE AMAZON.. : THE DIRECTOR ,OF- PUBL IC.WO.RKS -f N,Q I,CATEDTHAt, ,THE ,~E.sTE.R,N', REACHES OF 'fHE: AMAZON WE'RE DESIGNED ON A 25-YEAR FLOOi:! ST.AGE-AN,D THAT'TW'IC,E SINCE IT HAS BEEN CONSTRUCTED ITS DESIGNED CAPACIT~ HAS' BEEN OVERREACHED~ HE FURTHER STATED THAT' THE CONCRE~E LINING THROUGH EUGENE HAD BEEN DE$IGNED O~ A 75~YEAR- FLOOD STAGE) A~D THAT THE CORPS Of ARMY ENGINEERS HAO REVISED UPWARD THEIR ESTI- MATES OF THE WATER'VOLUMES WHICH SHOULD BE CARRtED BY THE AMAZON~ THE COMMITTEE DISCUSSED THE" IDEA Of EXTENDING THE, UPPER IMPROVED, REGIONS Of THE AMAZON: SO THAT THE AMAZON WOULD BE COMPLETE fROM CITY LIMITS TO CITY LIMITS, AND IT WAS RECOM- MENDED THAT THE CITY MANAGER BE INSTRUCTED TO START SERIOUS NEGOTIA:rIONS TOWARD THE COMPLE~ION OF THE AMAZON FROM CITY LIMITS, TO. CITY LIMITS. I e IT WA-5 MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MRS. LAURISTHAT ITEM 5 OF- THE REPORT Of THE,COMMITTEE BE APPROVED. MOTION CARRIED WITH MR. \VILSON VOTING ,NAY. ~. COMMUNIC~TIO~ REGARDING SEWER LINE 1# THE ALLEY BETWEEN FERRY ~ND PATTERSOKSTREETS FROM 12TH TO 13TH AVENUE - MR. MAX J. ROBINSON, OWNER Of PROPERTY A:r 545-1/2 AND 547-1/2 EAST 13TH AVENUE WHICH PROPERTY FACES THE ALLEY BETWEEN PATTERSON AND FERRY STREETS AND BETWEEN 12TH AND 13TH AVENUES, INDICATED BY LETTER THAT THERE IS A BAD COND I T ION ,Of A ,SEWER ,RUNN I NG THROUGH T/:tEALLEY.1 N TH I 5 AREA. . ,HE:. I NO I CATED ,T.HAT THIS SANITARY SEWER IS BROKEN IN A NUMBER Of PLACES AND IS ALSO OPEN: AT THE ,JOINTS. HE fURTHER STATED :THAT HE HAD EXPENDED SEVE.RAL HUNDRED DOLLARS- I N THE PAST ..TWO OR THREE YE:ARS I N'AN ATTEMPT TO KEE:P' HIS LINE rUNCT 10N~1 NG. HE REQUESTED THE: A 10 OF THE CITY I:N HAVING 'THESEWElR REPL,ACED.- I THE 01 RECTOR OF PUBLI C WORKS I NO I CATEO THAT NO C fTY SEWER HAD BEEN CONSTRUCTED IN THE ALLEY, THAT THERE IS IN EXISTENCE A NUMBER OF PRIVATE 4" HOUSE SERVICES WHICH EXTEND I NTO THE: SAN I-TARY SEWER ON: THE SOUTH :S I DE Of 12TH AVENUE. HE I NO rCATED THAT A MANHOLE HAD BEEN CONSTRUCTED ON THIS~LINE .N-~936 AND THAT~TH~ CITY HAD ~ I II ;/ e